Spanish true crime

Netflix docuseries about the murder of Heidi Paz Bulnes in Madrid and the conviction of Spanish chef César Román, known as 'the King of Cachopo,' sentenced to 15 years in 2021.

Manuel Blanco Vela, a Seville-based tour guide, was convicted of sexually assaulting American students during organized trips through Morocco and Portugal between 2013 and 2017.

The César Román case is a Spanish homicide in which businessman César Román murdered and dismembered his 25-year-old partner Heidi Paz Bulnes in Madrid in August 2018.

The Card Killer case is a Spanish serial murder case from 2003, in which ex-soldier Alfredo Galán Sotillo shot nine people in and around Madrid, leaving playing cards at crime scenes as his signature.

Netflix documentary about ETA's 1997 kidnapping and execution of 29-year-old Spanish councillor Miguel Ángel Blanco, the 48-hour crisis that mobilised millions across Spain.

Netflix docuseries about Francisco Nicolás Gómez Iglesias, the young Spanish con man who infiltrated political, royal, and intelligence circles — and was arrested in 2014.

Las últimas horas de Mario Biondo is a Netflix docuseries about the 2013 death of Italian cameraman Mario Biondo in Madrid, officially ruled suicide but never accepted as such by his family.

From Cold War assassinations to coordinated terror attacks, from serial killers to landmark corruption scandals, these cases — selected by the truecrime.news editorial team as the crimes that most profoundly shaped European criminal justice and public memory — span decades and borders, each leaving a permanent mark on how Europe understands crime, justice, and institutional accountability.